They came for the visual artists with the Ghibli Style.
Imagine how we writers feel with their Gibberish Style.
I compiled a short list of anti-AI tools. If you know of others, please add them
[added ArtShield, Anti-DreamBooth and Mist on 2025-04-01]
Anti-AI tools
Glaze
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu
Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry. At a high level, Glaze works by understanding the AI models that are training on human art, and using machine learning algorithms, computing a set of minimal changes to artworks, such that it appears unchanged to human eyes, but appears to AI models like a dramatically different art style.
Nightshade
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/
Nightshade, a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training
ArtShield
https://artshield.io
ArtShield embeds a well-camouflaged watermark into your images that helps prevent AI models from training on your data. This watermark is what models such as Stable Diffusion use to mark images that it generates in order to prevent it from training off of data it has produced itself.
Anti-DreamBooth
https://github.com/VinAIResearch/Anti-DreamBooth
The system aims to add subtle noise perturbation to each user's image before publishing in order to disrupt the generation quality of any DreamBooth model trained on these perturbed images.
Mist
https://github.com/psyker-team/mist-v2
Mist is a powerful image preprocessing tool designed for the purpose of protecting the style and content of images from being mimicked by state-of-the-art AI-for-Art applications.
HarmonyCloak
https://mosis.eecs.utk.edu/harmonycloak.html
HarmonyCloak is designed to protect musicians from the unauthorized exploitation of their work by generative AI models. At its core, HarmonyCloak functions by introducing imperceptible, error-minimizing noise into musical compositions.
Kudurru
https://kudurru.ai
Actively block AI scrapers from your website with Spawning's defense network
Nepenthes
https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it's targetting crawlers that scrape data for LLMs - but really, like the plants it is named after, it'll eat just about anything that finds it's way inside.
AI Labyrinth
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/
Today, we’re excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.
More tools, suggested by comments on this posts:
Anubis
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/
Anubis is a reverse proxy that requires browsers and bots to solve a proof-of-work challenge before they can access your site.
Iocaine
https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org
The goal of iocaine is to generate a stable, infinite maze of garbage.
I was wondering where some new stuff is on Film School Rejects, and then I read this: https://filmschoolrejects.com/film-school-rejects-for-sale/
This isn't good. Hopefully, Neil will find someone willing to support the site without wild ideas of plugging it into mainstream.
Film School Rejects need to stay free and weird.
I've noticed lately that Duckduckgo had started shoving it's A.I. search results into my searches. A quick hunt around & I've found that you can switch it off by using this link or adding these 2 parameters to your searches...
Does anyone know any AI/scraper poisoners that work on WordPress? I've got to maintain a couple of sites for a niche interest, and I'd like that stuff not to be stolen.
If you are sharing AI-generated images/LLM slop & have no desire to learn how to recognize them or change this behavior, let me be clear that you are an enemy to both the Arts and Democracy.
I will unfollow/block you, I don't care who you are. I'm not having my feed overrun w this shit.
Paraphrasing Cody here: "AI generated content is made by capitalists/fascists who hate Art, for people who don't want to understand Art."
UK folks, have your say (if you have the spoons):
"Open consultation
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence"
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence
The current crop of "AI" is of course deeply problematic for all kinds of reasons but I feel we may be missing an important point here.
Suppose a corporation acquires,without stealing anyone's work, the ability to create a perfect AI: one that is not lying, is not biased, is kind and considerate and does everything that can be done via a computer better than the average human. So none of the current objections would apply any more, except the environmental one.
1/2
REMINDER THAT IF I SEE YOU POST AI-GENERATED CONTENT, EITHER DELIBERATELY OR INADVERTENTLY AND YOU KEEP IT UP AFTER IT'S BEEN POINTED OUT,
I WILL UNFOLLOW AND BLOCK YOU
Any AI/LLMs only exist due to theft. AI has NO place in the Arts and I will not condone its use or normalization
First Monday morning task ticked off - a letter to my MP regarding the proposal to give big tech free reign to scrape data unless companies explicitly "opt-out"...
https://www.ft.com/content/26bc3de1-af90-4c69-9f53-61814514aeaa
#NotoAI #BigTech #UkPolitics
Happy Release Day/Book Birthday to NOTHING BUT THE WILLOWS & OTHER THINGS THAT ARE NOT THERE which comes out today, with cover art by MEEEE
It's an eclectic collection of sad horror & cosmic weirdness by J.D. Buffington, out now!
You can help support
-an indie writer
-human-made art
AND own some art by me,
if you get it!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DDR6HDF5
#indie #horror #book #art #HumanMadeArt #artwork #BookCoverArtist #bookstodon @bookstodon @horror @horrorbooks #NoToAI
@toa5t
Well if that's the case: Don't!
Don't keep training ever bigger models.
Don't try to ingest everything either.
Just cease to exist
I so resent having all this AI crap shoved in my face. I didn't ask for it, it's not helping me or saving me time. (Just wasted time ascertaining that I can't disable the AI prompts in Confluence because they are a "marketing tool" grrr)
#AI #Confluence #NoToAI
And one more, because it speaks to my soul:
#meme #accurate #FuckAI #NoToAI #SupportHumanMadeArt #Hahaha #IHopeTheyAllImplode
#MotherSuspiriasMorningMeme
If you're buying Karin Markers, you should know they're not even competent enough to disqualify an AI-scammer from their art contest and are even giving them 1st place, so I think it speaks volumes about their knowledge and experience in art and what they really think of artists.
See my previous post for more information.
This is infuriating and shameful, even more from an art supplies company.
Others besides me have predicted this, and already it's coming true"
"US slows plans to retire coal plants as power demand from AI surges"
https://www.worldenergydata.org/us-slows-plans-to-retire-coal-plants-as-power-demand-from-ai-surges/